Billionaire Elon Musk Privately Visits Auschwitz

On Monday, Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and Space x as well as the chairman of X (formerly Twitter) joined a delegation visiting the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA).

Musk visited the concentration camp ahead of his participation in a symposium organized by the EJA in Krakow with senior political figures from 25 European countries to discuss and find solutions to the astronomical rises in antisemitism affecting Europe since the attacks by Hamas on Simchas Torah.

He was accompanied by EJA Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Frum political commentator Ben Shapiro, and Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev. The other participants of the conference will visit the site of the Concentration Camp, where they will hold a memorial ceremony on Tuesday.

During his visit, Musk laid a wreath at the Wall of Death and took part in a short memorial ceremony and service by the Birkenau Memorial.

“It’s deeply sad and tragic [what] humans could do this to other humans,” Musk said at the conference of the European Jewish Association (EJA).

“The circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism,” Musk said. “Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish. I am Jewish by association, aspirationally Jewish. I never hear about it at dinner conversations; it’s an absurdity in my friend circles. But looking at the pro-Hamas rallies that have taken place at almost every city in the West, it’s blown my mind.”